Product Management - (E4) - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$147,000 - $202,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
Lead digital tool enabled service-product development and NPI customer-site evaluations for Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP).
About the role
This role integrates after-sales service planning into the Product Development Process for semiconductor equipment, focusing on Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP), hardware design, process engineering, and customer fabrication operations. The position works closely with equipment Business Units and cross-functional teams to improve product performance and service readiness for systems at customer sites worldwide.
What you'll do
- Partner with the Business Unit to integrate service requirements and service-product offerings into PDP and NPI plans.
- Develop new digital capabilities, predictive analytics solutions, and differentiated service-product offerings for emerging applications and platforms.
- Lead NPI evaluations and demonstrations at customer sites, including Statement of Work, technical requirements, success criteria, deliverables, schedule commitments, and closure.
- Lead cross-functional execution teams and collaborate with engineering, field service, product support, application engineering, digital-tool teams, and customers on scope, analysis, schedule, risks, deliverables, and issue resolution.
- Define and approve product application-support plans and knowledge-transfer packages for service-product offerings, new applications, and platforms.
- Develop methodologies and digital tools to optimize system performance using machine learning, predictive analytics, matching programs, and customer-value models, including UVA models where applicable.
What you'll need
- Expertise in semiconductor equipment, preferably chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), with knowledge of hardware, process technology, applications, platforms, or customer fabrication operations.
- Working knowledge of product development, new-product introduction, service readiness, product release, customer-site evaluation, and field-support requirements.
- Program-management experience leading matrixed, cross-functional technical programs and customer evaluations.
- Ability to read mechanical drawings, schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams, system specifications, and technical qualification data.
- Programming or scripting experience using Python, C++, HTML, JMP, MATLAB, Excel automation, or comparable tools.
- Understanding of digital tools, machine learning, predictive analytics, matching programs, diagnostics, data pipelines, and customer-value models.
Nice to have
- Application-development experience.
- Advanced degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, materials, software, data analytics, or a related engineering discipline.
- Product-specific knowledge spanning hardware and process technologies; customer-site evaluation experience.
This role has been open 3 days — well below the 53-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3718
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$126k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 615 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1090 | 9729 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 53 d | 53 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 613 open roles · median 52 d
- Lam Research · 545 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 269 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation · 254 open roles · median 66 d
- ASML · 198 open roles · median 64 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 3718 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.